President Nixon initiates a brief administrative communication with the White House operator from his office in the Old Executive Office Building. The exchange serves as a functional request to facilitate an external telephone connection. No policy matters or substantive political developments are addressed during this short interaction.
On November 3, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:16 pm and 12:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 301-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 301-12 Date: November 3, 1971 Time: Unknown between 12:16 pm and 12:20 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 13-98]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.